Improvement in ironing-boards



D. H. BAGLEY.

IRONING BOA-RD.

11 ,181,813, Patented Sept. 5, 1876.

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specification and represented in the accomgitudinal section, of one of my improved iron- 'boards, A B, and a sad-iron supporter, G, all

UNI ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DWIGHT H. BAGLEY, OF EAST MEDWAY, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT lN lRONlNG-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,813, dated September 5, 1876; application filed July 24,

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DWIGHT H. BAGLEY, of East Medway, of the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Skirt-Boards or Ironing-Tables and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following panying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 a loning -tables or skirtboards as unfolded or ready for use. Fig. 3 is an under-side View and Fig. 4 a longitudinal section, of it with its legs in a folded state.

This skirt-board or ironing-table, as shown, is provided, near one end of it, with two pressof which are connected to the table by a single screw, D, and its nut G, each of such boards being capable of being revolved upon the said screw in a plane parallel to the tabletop or body a. To the under side of the table top a two sets of legs, E E F F, are hinged, the legs of each of such sets being arranged as shown, and connected by two rounds or bars, b 0 0rd 6, extending from one to the other of them. The two sets of legs are to be so hinged to the table-top as, when moved on their pivots, to turn in opposite directions toward such top. The legs of one set are dis posed at a distance from each other greater than the extreme width of the other set, in order that the latter set while the two sets may be in the act of being folded, may pass between the legs of the other or larger 'set, and across the upper crossbar thereof. To the lower cross-bar of the lesser set of legs a hook, H, is pivoted to engage with an eye, I, inserted in the table-top, all being as represented. 4

From the, above it will be seen that the lesser set of legs and the hook and eye serve to hold the other set of legs folded against the table-top. In unfolding the sets of legs the larger set should first be moved backward, the other or smaller set being thereby freed, so as to enable it to be turned back without interference from the fellow set.

I claim as my invention- 1. In the ironing-table or skirt-board, the two sets of legs E E F F, pivoted to the body or top a, so as to fold in opposite directions, and

one within the other, and across its upper crossbar, all as shown and described.

2. The combination of the hook H and eye I with the table-top a, and with the two sets of legs E E F F, pivoted thereto so as to fold in opposite directions, and one within the other, and across its uppercrossbar, all substantially as represented.

3. In combination with theironing-table or skirt-board, the sad-iron supporter G and one or more press-boards, A B, connected to the said table by a single screw, D, and nut G, all being as set forth.

- DWIGHT H. BAGLEY.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. Snow. 

